严重的地方贸易保护主义，必然造成的“Slippery when wet”别想偏了。

[zhangulei]

不是那个sliperywhenwet.
正经事儿。

Slippery LRT tiles proof you get what you pay for: architect
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• a number of slips and falls during a rainy day last week — shed light on a process that puts the profit of builders like Rideau Transit Group (RTG) ahead of the public interest.
  
  "We might have asked for a specific tile. And maybe we asked for the wrong tile or we didn't ask for anything in particular. So the builder puts in something that meets whatever design brief is given — but it's not specific enough and we're stuck with it," said Dreessen.
  
  "[Rideau Transit Group has] this maintenance contract for the next 30 years. If we want to change something it's gonna be at our cost. So that's part of the problem."
  
  Should be durable, resistant
  Michael Morgan, director of the rail construction program, said in a statement that the city was "aware of concerns raised by customers" and would take "immediate action" with RTG.
  
  But the bigger issue, according to Dreessen, is the overall design of the stations — which makes the right flooring even more crucial.
  
  "I've put in similar tiles in buildings I've designed myself, but never in places where I anticipated there would be really high, wet foot traffic," Dreessen said.
  
  Since there's no avoiding the rain, snow and slush that will blow through some stations, Dreessen said the floors have to be both durable and resistant to slips and falls.
  
  
  
  
  
  Brushed concrete or some other more slip-resistant surface would have been a safer material for these stairs at Parliament station, according to architect Toon Dreessen. (Paul Jay/CBC)
  Brushed concrete would have provided better slip resistance, Dreessen said. It can be cheaper than tiles, he added, but it takes more work and effort to get done right.
  
  "That probably would have been my choice, just because it's a little more durable. I mean, something like a tile might not last for 30 or 40 years — whereas the concrete probably will."
  
  'Bare minimum'
  The problem of a public-private partnership like Ottawa's light rail line, Dreessen said, is that it's designed to maximize profit for the builder, not to maximize public interest and public value.
  
  • LRT stations slippery when wet, commuters complain
  • What happened to the 'relentless pursuit of perfection'?
  The tile in question probably meets the "bare minimum requirement," but not much more, he said.
  
  "If I was the architect trying to build these LRT stations, I would be trying to do more than the minimum," Dreessen said.
  
  "But in a public-private partnership, anything more than the minimum is at the cost to the builder. So why would they do anything else other than the minimum?"
  

 

[zhangulei]

过度保护本地企业的任何行为都是对本国人民和本国经济竞争力的严重伤害。
更不用说，保护违反法律的本地企业了。总理太聪明period。

 

[zhangulei]

这随便摔一跤，又是大笔的税金将用于赔偿啊。冬天要到了。

 

[zhangulei]

政府办公楼臭虫滋生，还在蔓延。whatthehack。
怪诞的现实。

Union demands action as bedbug problem spreads to new federal building
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'These are not isolated cases,' says PSAC after bugs found at Tunney's Pasture
CBC News · Posted: Oct 27, 2019 4:00 AM ET | Last Updated: October 27

The Jeanne Mance Building at Tunney's Pasture is the latest to be dealing with a potential bedbug problem, CBC News has learned. (Radio-Canada)
As a Tunney's Pasture tower becomes the latest government building in the National Capital Region flagged for bedbugs, Canada's largest federal workers' union is demanding a more proactive strategy to deal with the pests.

The Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) says bedbugs have now been identified in buildings in Ottawa, Gatineau, Montreal, Hamilton, Toronto, Winnipeg, and Milton, Ont.

• Signs of bed bugs spotted at 2 more federal buildings
  

CBC has learned that one office tower at Tunney's Pasture — the Jeanne Mance Building, whose primary tenant is Health Canada — is the latest to be monitored.

"I would like to inform you of the activities that are taking place in the building in order to respond to an incident where one bedbug was found on the 12th floor," wrote Stefania Trombetti of the Responsible Building Authority Thursday, in an email to workers obtained by CBC.

"We are making arrangements for high-heat steaming of the immediate area where the bedbug was found and we are considering additional measures."

The insect was "eliminated," Trombetti added.

This email sent by Stefania Trombetti on Oct. 24 outlines the steps being taken to stave off a potential bedbug problem at the Jeanne Mance Building. (Supplied)
Growing problem
It's been a bad month for bedbugs in federal buildings.

Trombetti's note came the same week Public Services and Procurement Canada (PSPC), which manages government properties, told some Employment and Social Development Canada employees to work from home Friday.

That request was made so that a pest control company could deal with a bedbug problem at 22 Eddy St. in Gatineau.

PSPC also revealed bedbugs had been spotted on the 16th floor of the Jean Edmonds Tower at 300 Slater St. in Ottawa.

Hundreds of federal public servants also had to work from home earlier this month to allow for bedbug treatments at 70 Crémazie Street in Gatineau — an infestation that had gone on for more than a year.

Magali Picard, national executive vice-president of PSAC, wants the federal government to proactively fight bedbugs in their buildings by, among other things, letting sniffer dogs track them down. (CBC)
'Not isolated cases'
"These are not isolated cases," said Magali Picard, PSAC's national executive vice-president.

• Bed bugs found inside immigration offices at Guy-Favreau
  
  
• Gatineau office building treated for bedbugs
  

"Employees have a right to feel safe at work, and they're rightfully worried about bringing bedbugs home with them and affecting their families, which is having an impact on their mental health," said Picard in a statement to CBC.

The union would like the federal government to start proactively inspecting its buildings with sniffer dogs, while also creating a registry of buildings contaminated by pests.

They're also asking them to:

• Cover fumigation expenses for workers in infested buildings who bring bugs home.
• Give them the technological ability to work from home if pests become a problem at their buildings.
• Allow workers stay home after fumigation until a follow-up inspection has been made.
• Teach them how to identify and report a bedbug problem.

Finally, PSAC said it wants to see the government stop attacking the problem one floor at a time, and fumigate entire buildings when problems persist.

'It's worrying'
Some employees who read the note told CBC their biggest fear is bringing bedbugs home.

"It's worrying," said one woman as she left the building Friday.

"It's hard to know if you've got some on you or [if] you're bringing them home. I have small children — I don't want my kids to be subject to bedbugs in my own home."

Trombetti wrote in her email that the building's property management team and the workplace health and safety committees were both "taking this issue seriously."

"As a precaution, we have installed pheromone glue traps on the floor to monitor the situation," she wrote.

 

[zhangulei]

'We've got to do better': Riders faced 9 hours of train delays last week

LRT真不如国内三线小城的地铁啊。

 

[New Person]

MAGA.

 

[zhangulei]

加拿大不是美国
MAGA means

Make actors govern again.